Effects on csproj file when upgrading to VS2008 SP1

Question

We are in the process of upgrading our VS2008 to the new SP1, but noticed a change in the csproj files for something that we can't find information on. Seems that the ProductVersion in the csproj file is changed from:

<ProductVersion>9.0.21022</ProductVersion>

to

<ProductVersion>9.0.30729</ProductVersion>

It looks like some property signalling that the csproj file is/can be consumed by VS 2008 SP1 (perhaps for the Solution Selector to peek into) but are there other hidden side-effects of this property change that we should be looking out for?

Answer 1

I think it's more likely to be the product version that produced the file rather than saying what it can be consumed by. I'd be very surprised to see the build version make any tangible difference.

Answer 2

The major version is all that matters to the Visual Studio Version Selector to select which version of visual studio to open (incase you have both 2005 and 2008).

I guess if you have created a project in a Visual Studio with SP1 installed then it may complain and ask you to install sp1?

I dont have any VS 2008 without SP1 to test this :)

Answer 3

My coworker just got SP1 courtesy of of a ninja update from corporate IT (presumably I'll be getting it after rebooting). My RTM copy doesn't seem to care about the newer version string in all the csproj files.